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Personal History

Author : Katharine Graham
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1474610269
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Personal History written by Katharine Graham and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story - one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and for the courage, candour and dignity of its telling. Here is the awkward child who grew up amid material wealth and emotional isolation; the young bride who watched her brilliant, charismatic husband - a confidant to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson - plunge into the mental illness that would culminate in his suicide. And here is the widow who shook off her grief and insecurity to take on a president and a pressman's union as she entered the profane boys' club of the newspaper business. As timely now as ever, Personal History is an exemplary record of our history and of the woman who played such a shaping role within them, discovering her own strength and sense of self as she confronted - and mastered - the personal and professional crises of her fascinating life.

Hold Still

Author : Sally Mann
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 031624774X
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Hold Still written by Sally Mann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions; V.3

Author : John Livingston
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781020512070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions; V.3 written by John Livingston and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a series of portraits and biographical sketches of prominent Americans of the late nineteenth century. The individuals featured include politicians, artists, scientists, and other notable figures, and the memoirs provide valuable insights into their lives and accomplishments. This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in the history of the United States in the late nineteenth century and the lives of the people who shaped that history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living V4

Author : John A. Livingston
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781437044782
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living V4 written by John A. Livingston and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Portrait of Myself

Author : Margaret Bourke-White
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787200914
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of Myself written by Margaret Bourke-White and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the internationally acclaimed American woman Margaret Bourke-White, who for over thirty years made photographic history: as the first photographer to see the artistic and storytelling possibilities in American industry, as the first to write social criticism with a lens, and as the most distinguished and venturesome foreign correspondent-with-a-camera to report wars, politics and social and political revolution on three continents. In this poignant autobiography, Bourke-White details her fight against Parkinson’s disease, and recounts tales of her struggles to master her art and craft, of photographing Stalin, Gandhi and many other notables, of being torpedoed off North Africa while reporting World War II, of flying combat missions, of photographing the dread murder camps of Nazi Germany, of touring Tobacco Road to produce the book You Have Seen Their Faces with Erskine Caldwell (whom she later married), of adventures—and wonderful picture-taking—in the mines of South Africa, in the frozen North, in war-torn Korea. Illustrated throughout with over 70 of Margaret Bourke-White’s fine photographs, this is the great life story of a great American, greatly yet modestly told.

Beyond East and West

Author : Bernard Leach
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571296130
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Beyond East and West written by Bernard Leach and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our time, Bernard Leach has done for pottery what Henry Moore has done for scuplture. This... infinitely rewarding book is an account of his pilgrimage through life.' Times Bernard Leach (1887-1979) was as renowned in Japan and the East as in Europe and America, both as an artist-craftsman and as a thinker. His interpretation of the traditions of the Orient in the making of pots - and in evolving a philosophy of life - was a lodestar for many potters in the West. Beyond East and West, first published in 1978, is more than an autobiography. Full of sharply-etched and amusing recollections, it contains much of Leach's deeper thought and a great deal too about the practical application of his ideas. Its recurrent theme is the meeting of East and West at all levels - artistic, cultural, social, political.

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Author : John LIVINGSTON (Notary Public)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; with Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions written by John LIVINGSTON (Notary Public) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

PORTRAITS OF EMINENT AMER NOW

Author : John Livingston
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333502409
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book PORTRAITS OF EMINENT AMER NOW written by John Livingston and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; Including President Pierce and His Cabinet: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions The following sketches exhibit, as all biography will, that those who are most successful in obtaining honors, public respect and wealth, have not pursued these as the ends of their labors, but have obtained them as incidents to active virtues. When we make reputation, honor, or riches, the motives instead of the rewards of our conduct, we reverse the order which Providence has established, and fail Of obtaining what we are per versely seeking. When Solomon was asked what he most desired, he said, Give thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people. And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life, nor riches, nor the life of thine enemies, lo I I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee. And I have also given thee what thou hast not asked, both riches and honor. He asked to perform well his duties, and the performance brought with it riches and honor as incidents of duty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Self-Portrait

Author : Celia Paul
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1681374838
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book Self-Portrait written by Celia Paul and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art. One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal entries as well as memory, of her childhood in India and her days as a art student at London's Slade School of Fine Art; of her intense decades-long relationship with the older esteemed painter Lucian Freud and the birth of their son; of the challenges of motherhood, the unresolvable conflict between caring for a child and remaining commited to art; of the "invisible skeins between people," the profound familial connections Paul communicates through her paintings of her mother and sisters; and finally, of the mystical presence in her own solitary vision of the world around her. Self-Portrait is a powerful, liberating evocation of a life and of a life-long dedication to art.

American Portrait Gallery

Author : John Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Portrait Gallery written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Bones

Author : John Lurie
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0399592989
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book The History of Bones written by John Lurie and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential depiction of 1980s New York and the downtown scene from the artist, actor, musician, and composer John Lurie “A picaresque roller coaster of a story, with staggering amounts of sex and drugs and the perpetual quest to retain some kind of artistic integrity.”—The New York Times In the tornado that was downtown New York in the 1980s, John Lurie stood at the vortex. After founding the band The Lounge Lizards with his brother, Evan, in 1979, Lurie quickly became a centrifugal figure in the world of outsider artists, cutting-edge filmmakers, and cultural rebels. Now Lurie vibrantly brings to life the whole wash of 1980s New York as he developed his artistic soul over the course of the decade and came into orbit with all the prominent artists of that time and place, including Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry, Boris Policeband, and, especially, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the enigmatic prodigy who spent a year sleeping on the floor of Lurie’s East Third Street apartment. It may feel like Disney World now, but in The History of Bones, the East Village, through Lurie’s clear-eyed reminiscence, comes to teeming, gritty life. The book is full of grime and frank humor—Lurie holds nothing back in this journey to one of the most significant moments in our cultural history, one whose reverberations are still strongly felt today. History may repeat itself, but the way downtown New York happened in the 1980s will never happen again. Luckily, through this beautiful memoir, we all have a front-row seat.

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; Including President Pierce and His Cabinet; With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

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Author : John Livingston
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781344924863
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living; Including President Pierce and His Cabinet; With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions written by John Livingston and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man

Author : Bill Clegg
Publisher : Back Bay Books
ISBN 13 : 0316084506
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man written by Bill Clegg and published by Back Bay Books. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Clegg had a thriving business as a literary agent, a supportive partner, trusting colleagues, and loving friends when he walked away from his world and embarked on a two-month crack binge. He had been released from rehab nine months earlier, and his relapse would cost him his home, his money, his career, and very nearly his life. What is it that leads an exceptional young mind want to disappear? Clegg makes stunningly clear the attraction of the drug that had him in its thrall, capturing in scene after scene the drama, tension, and paranoiac nightmare of a secret life--and the exhilarating bliss that came again and again until it was eclipsed almost entirely by doom. He also explores the shape of addiction, how its pattern--not its cause--can be traced to the past. Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man is an utterly compelling narrative--lyrical, irresistible, harsh, honest, and beautifully written--from which you simply cannot look away.

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780371445549
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living written by and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-26 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living

Author : John Livingston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gallery of Portraits

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781010319054
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Gallery of Portraits written by Anonymous and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

GALLERY OF PORTRAITS

Author : Arthur Thomas Malkin
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362202424
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book GALLERY OF PORTRAITS written by Arthur Thomas Malkin and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.